Muse's latest album 'The Resistance' jumped to number 1 in Belgium out of nowhere and sold over 4 times as much copies of their new album as did the Beatles of their latest box set, despite the Beatles enormous and before unseen marketing campaign. Excerpt from article:

Crazy GeniusSinger Matt Bellamy is together with psychologist Gaia Polloni, and next to being her partner he's also an interesting study case. The singer claims he receives visits at home - a villa once belonging to the 19th century composer Bellini - from Chopin and that he's greatful for his entire lifeline to the visions he received from entheogenic mushrooms as a twentier.

Next to this Bellamy is an "fervant adherer to conspiracy theories". 'Unnatural Selection' is about the theory that the royal family of England descends from alien reptilians and at home he has a closet with 50 cans of beans and an axe. "I read somewhere that when they shut off England from the world, there's be no more food after a week. Those beans are for the hunger. The axe is for when I want to break the blockade." Source: HLN Belgium

The partly image from the article is a zoom of drummer Dominic Howard's t-shirt of a skeleton carrying the burden of an inverted Illuminati Pyramid.

Muse also had a great performance on the VMA's as the cameras went across the street to where they were performing. Matt Bellamy has said he wants to write the next James Bond song too. So here's the plan to wake people up musically, get insanely popular and later, then really start talking about stuff that matters, it's a lot harder to be censored when you're this big.

The lead singer and drummer of rock band Muse switched places for a performance on Italian television, after being told to mime.

If the presenter noticed the (muse) ruse she did not let on – the band left the stage with the studio and television audience apparently unaware that they had been duped.

This was not the first time the band have sabotaged (? :p) their own television performances after being told they must mime rather than play live. In 2001 Howard and bass player Chris Wolstenholme swapped instruments for an appearance on BBC children's television show Live & Kicking.

Muse are known for their theatrical and energetic stage shows and have been acclaimed as one of Britain's finest live bands.

"I think it's quite a departure from what we've done in the past," drummer Dominic Howard said. "There's lots of different styles of music that we tried out. There's different styles of music that we feel like we've never come across before. And, well ... we've got a big symphony on there. It's a three-part symphony right at the end of the album, which is this very kind of, like, ambitious, very orchestral huge piece of music which is a pretty hard task to take on, but ended up sounding great."

Howard was speaking of "Exogenesis," which is, indeed, a three-part symphony complete with an "Overture," a second act called "Cross-Pollination" and a finale called "Redemption." With swelling, dramatic strings and classical piano runs worthy of Chopin or Rachmaninoff, operatic vocals and searching lyrics about escaping the bounds of earthly gravity, the songs are indeed beyond ambitious, which is nothing new for a group of guys who have been forthright about their desire to conquer the globe with their Cinemascope sound.

"I think the structure of the album has a mild, loose narrative ... which is something different to what we've done before," frontman Matthew Bellamy explained. "I wouldn't say it's a pure concept album, but it's definitely got a few themes which go throughout. Themes like revolution, uprising, wanting political change, constitutional reform ... as well as a sort-of, kind-of love story developing in the midst of all that."

Bellamy said the album is a kind of musical companion to "1984," the classic George Orwell novel about a lone man's rebellion against a controlling totalitarian government. But, despite those far-reaching, worldly themes, Howard said that at its heart, The Resistance, which was produced by the band, is really a personal statement. "We did a song called 'Undisclosed Desires,' which is very kind of programmed and much more electronic-sounding than anything we've ever done before," he said. "And we produced it all by ourselves as well, so I think for that it sounded very, very personal and also gave us a chance to feel very comfortable to experiment with all these ideas and ... you know, somehow we finished it."

Since the beginning of 2008 the number of suicides at France Telecom have added to 22! Next to this 13 employees of France Telecom have attempted suicide in the same period. Last week an employee attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the gut with a knife after being demoted. The union suspects the high work pressure and constant restructuring is the reason, I bet the atmosphere at work wasn't too great either. Let's all celebrate capitalism...

I used to think cupid was a real jerkA child star, tormentedA faded star of yesterdayNow toothless and jadedHe shoots his arrows wildly with bottlesScattered across the skyHe trips on cloudsWith a face like Keith Richards

I'm everywhere, partial and entireI'm on the inside of everythingAnd on the outsideI'm trembling like a man away from homeBut I can't speak my heartIn case they hear meNow, no one will listen to our song

I used to think cupid was an assholeThé loneliest soul in the universeAnd as the wrinkled birdman approached meI could smell his smouldering cigarette breathAnd he looked at me out the corner of his headAnd he spokeSo, you ask me why no one stays together anymore?

You're never around when I need youYou're never around when I need you

Monday, September 14, 2009

Ari: I never wanted to do a drug that made me lose control.Vince: You don't lose control Ari, just all of your stresses.Johnny: Exactly. At this moment, none of us have a care in the world... hahaha!

Season 5 episode 5: "Tree Trippers"

Vince, debating over whether to take the big studio picture Smokejumpers, about forest-firefighters, goes with the guys and Ari in search clarity and guidance in the arid expanse of Joshua Tree National Park, with psychedelic mushrooms and their friend Eric Roberts. Lloyd agrees to watch Ari's house while Mrs. Gold and the kids are away, but Lloyd and his boyfriend use Ari's house to throw a party. Ari has a bad reaction to the mushrooms and gets lost at Joshua Tree. But eventually, on the way back, Vince uses his hallucinogenic experience to make a career choice. Excellent use of entheogens in a tv show with some hilarious scenes. Just found these four clips from the episode which don't do it justice. Also, in an earlier episode of the show, Johnny "Drama" Chase mentions "the Secret" without anyone really mocking it, the best character to do so cause his attitude gets him into loads of hilarious trouble.

Vince enjoys a synchronicity as he sees himself as one of the firefighters they cross on the road, after they've supposedly come down mostly.

999 666 333. Nothing peculiar going on here! The tab for this was 50.000 Euros, daycares were also secured. Cops were even stationed inside classrooms freaking the kids out because nobody had told parents or the students about this... And all because of an anonymous quote on 4chan threatening a school in Mechelen. Nothing happened though. Here's a news article in English about it.

Come let the revolution take it's toll if you couldFlick the switch and open your third eye, you'd see thatWe should never be afraid to die

Rise up and take the power back, it's time thatThe fat cats had a heart attack, you know thatTheir time is coming to an endWe have to unify and watch our flag ascend

Also take a look at these titles from the album with the same name:UprisingResistanceUndisclosed DesiresUnited States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)Guiding LightUnnatural SelectionMK UltraI Belong to You (+Mon Cœur S'ouvre à Ta Voix)Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

"How do you choose between believing in Jesus, Bigfoot, leprechauns, witchcraft, Islam, alien abductions, the Tooth Fairy, gold at the end of the rainbow or the myriad other assertions that people have made over the course of human history? Try using your brain to evaluate some evidence. Yes, it requires more work than blind faith, but the results are less like rolling the dice and hoping you have placed your faith in a true proposition.

However, if you are still inclined to place faith in an un-provable assertion, I am God, send me money." Wayne Adkins

JK: I want to talk a little bit about the elves. I think that when you say DMT elves people picture, you know, Tinkerbell flying around.

TM: Well, this is what I call the Disneyfication of elf land, and people expect cheerful friendly places that they know and can recognize. But it's much wierder and much more scarier than that; more like the lower-east side than it is like Wonderland.

JK: So, when you say elves, they're not in the shape of human elves.

TM: No. Here's what is elf-like about them. You have the impression that you're underground. Elves live in the center of the earth. They make things. This is what elves are traditionally said to do. They are makers of jewelry and fine machinery. These things are involved in language somehow. They're involved in pun and riddle. This is standard elf material. And there is this very peculiar kind of out-of-control, madcap humor. Also, elves are tricky.

JK: Plus there's the singing...

TM: Yes, and the singing. I haven't carried out a study of the evolution of the image of the elf in the Western mind, but I think probably Disney and Grimm obliterated whatever had come before. But these things up until that time were very ambiguous creatures of the threshold and woodland. They were known for stealing babies primarily.

JK: Have you ever considered they might be a reflection of some sub-atomic phenomenon?

TM: Quantum creatures? Yes, I've thought of that. Because I take very seriously the question, 'Where are they?' You know, are they here but invisible? Are they locked in the quantum realm? Are they on a planet around another star that we can somehow punch into on DMT? I take it seriously. I think it is like any other phenomenon of nature, it should be studied on its own terms....

JK: (Laughs) Well, to go along with the common view you don't need any support to back you up. If you have a scent of an opinion you have to have thousands of references and citations. You must do the research.

TM: You have to be impeccable, because they're gonna come after you every way they can think of.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Zeitgeist Movement event which took place on March 15th 2009 in NYC at the BMCC TRIBECA Performing Arts Center. Only part of it, mostly the interview with Jacque Fresco, Peter Joseph and Roxanne Meadows, and some Q&A.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Aron Ranen, San Francisco’s foremost Gonzo documentarian, returns to IndieFest with a special work-in-progress screening of his latest feature film – a peripatetic journey to discover the secret history of psychedelics. He follows the story wherever it leads him – from the legitimate experiments conducted at the Harvard Divinity school to rather bizarre plans to unleash LSD on enemy troops on the battlefield.

He interviews Ram Dass (who was Richard Alpert when he was still Timothy Leary’s associate at Harvard), visits Paul Krassner former editor of The Realist, ‘Monkey Mike’ – a North Bay researcher who (with the government’s blessing) kept primates in huge cages in his backyard and was gave them LSD as late as the mid-70s, and he locates the notorious North Beach brothel used by the CIA to dose unsuspecting Johns (as agents observed the resultant chaos from behind one-way mirrors). Drop ‘em if you got ‘em.

Thanks Corbeau for recommending the album Heavy Mental.I'd have to highlight all the lyrics so I don't! Check it:

[hell razah]The sunz of man-sion, has been opened upThe door is open, yeah, yeah

It’s like, beware of biochips, I share hitsHarder than slavewhips like I waited to get tipsFrom egypts to seaships, to bein chased by new yorkCops out the precincts, and words was bricksWe buildin projects to pyramids, evil kidI destroy your ass like london bridge, smoke trees of weedTake off the leaves out the twigs, pure truth is what I got to giveA lot to live for, you ain’t rich before poorIt ain’t peace without poor, how would stand without a floorUnder, over, toxicated, soberYounger, older you’re elevated, higher than a empire stateElevators I roll with creators and crematorsStalkin through this nature, the heaven raise yaCapacity in your brains beyond the clouds of rainSeven and a half are containedSpace was my birthplace, meditate in cocoonsNow see snakes in human costumes...

[killah priest]Expand your mind (4x)In time... in time...

[father lord]Call this, the blind man talk, cripple man walkSee nor hear not summon as lordDivident per segment def unseen beingsSpeak no evil to all I see, tappin into theWorlds vision with the proper rhythmic meditationSituation on lives from state to stateRent to pay, state debate, contract datesCheddar in error, slave mental death to the treasureWashing my robe in the blood of the lamb, constant planNever strayin new york cause I rock supreme forever for I can never? blackring? on the ? axspring? the ghetto compactPut em on tracks, and let’s see how they act as the aftermathIncrease accelerate the sun behind you radiate, to burn to ashesAin’t one of the parties you been crashingBring the beat and i’ma slash itMy niggaz make sure the doors have been barricadedIt’s about to sign off, some shit you can read in block spinBut make no mistake, devil players, penetrate with your smartsRedrum mania reincarnate to another shapeBomb flashes, what can happen, new jack-inYour rappin ain’t the magnum so when he cought up to half theseNiggaz even stole the soul of the streets in motion

[killah priest]Expand your mindSeek and you shall find

Walkin through the pineal glands, like it was a unfathered manKnowledge is the key to the mind which is a mysterious doorwayThrough a long dark hallwayUse your concious as a compass to avoid being conqueredBy nonsense, use your subconcious as a mapOnce it’s time to head back use your food for thoughtAnd leave breadtracksNow we can see the third eye, swift as you burn flyYou need common sense as a detourUp ahead there lies three doors for you to see moreYou might have to meditate to the soft melodies from a keyboardUnderstanding is your flashlightIt reflects the windows to your past lifeNo psychiatrics could raid you from off the mattressAs you fall deeper, and it’s hypnotized you better read my lipsCause that’s the guide, out the hallways of negativeWhich is always competitive; thereforeYou must never let it live

Seek and you shall findExpand the mind, seek and you shall findExpand your mind, seek and you shall findExpand the mindSeek and you shall findExpand the mind